🛡️ CVE-2014-4326 — logstash

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Elasticsearch Logstash allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands

Elasticsearch Logstash 1.0.14 through 1.4.x before 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted event in (1) zabbix.rb or (2) nagios_nsca.rb in outputs/.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2014-4326 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2014-4326 is recorded against 1 package.

  • logstash (from 1.0.14 up to 1.4.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 16 April 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
web.archive.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
www.elastic.co (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-04-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
logstash 1.0.14 1.4.2

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